Senate Bill S2592

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Relates to provision of patient health information and medical records

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2015-S2592 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A3631
Current Committee:
Senate Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§17 & 18, Pub Health L; amd §33.16, Ment Hyg L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: S3445, A2869
2019-2020: S5243, A1120
2021-2022: S1482, A839
2023-2024: S1520, A4581

2015-S2592 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to provision of patient health information and medical records; expands the definition of medical records to include all health related records; prohibits fees for providing certain records.

2015-S2592 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2015-S2592 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  2592

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            January 26, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen. SERRANO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Health

AN ACT to amend the public health law and the  mental  hygiene  law,  in
  relation to patient health information and medical records

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Section 17 of the public health law, as amended by  chapter
165  of the laws of 1991, the first undesignated paragraph as amended by
chapter 576 of the laws of 1998, is amended to read as follows:
  S 17. Release of [medical] HEALTH records TO A DESIGNATED HEALTH  CARE
PROVIDER.   1. Upon the written request of any competent patient, parent
or guardian of an infant,  a  guardian  appointed  pursuant  to  article
eighty-one  of  the mental hygiene law, or conservator of a conservatee,
[an examining, consulting or treating  physician  or  hospital  must]  A
HEALTH  CARE PROVIDER WHO HAS PROVIDED PROFESSIONAL HEALTH CARE SERVICES
PERTAINING  TO  A  PATIENT  SHALL  release  and  deliver,  exclusive  of
NON-CLINICAL  personal  notes of the [said physician or hospital] HEALTH
CARE PROVIDER, copies of all [x-rays, medical] REQUESTED HEALTH  records
[and test records including all laboratory tests] regarding that patient
to  any other designated [physician or hospital provided, however, that]
HEALTH CARE PROVIDER.  HOWEVER, such records concerning the treatment of
an infant patient for venereal disease or the performance of an abortion
operation upon such infant patient shall  not  be  released  or  in  any
manner  be  made available to the parent or guardian of such infant, and
provided, further, that original mammograms, rather than copies thereof,
shall be released and delivered.  WHERE A HEALTH CARE PROVIDER MAINTAINS
A HEALTH RECORD IN ELECTRONIC FORM, IT MAY PROVIDE THE RECORD UNDER THIS
SECTION IN A REASONABLY USABLE ELECTRONIC FORM, AND SHALL PROVIDE IT  IN
SUCH FORM IF REQUESTED BY THE PERSON MAKING THE REQUEST.
  [Either the physician or hospital] 2. A HEALTH CARE PROVIDER incurring
the expense of providing copies of [x-rays, medical] HEALTH records [and

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD01173-01-5
              

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